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- Page 1 V7-MIRAGE P-64 User Manual Benutzerhandbuch Manuel d'emploi Manual del usuario Part Number 1740 2050.5 Rel. 0795.6...
- Page 2 Copyright by SPEA Software AG...
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Page 3: Registered Trademarks
You must imperatively read the README file on the Media Gallery CD and all the documentation supplied with your graphics board before installing it! If you fail to do so SPEA can not accept any responsibility for claims that may be caused as a consequence. -
Page 4: Table Of Contents
AutoCAD Rel. 11 Protected Mode Driver....................20 AutoCAD Rel. 12 Protected Mode Driver....................21 Configuring the Aquila Driver ........................22 Special Aquila Driver Features .......................23 AutoShade 2.1 ............................26 3D Studio 1.0 ............................27 3D Studio 2.0 ............................28 MS-Flight Simulator 5.x ..........................29 MicroStation 4.0x & 5.0 (SPEA BigMicro Driver) ..................30... - Page 5 Using more than one Board........................33 APPENDIX B TECHNICAL DETAILS ....................34 Technical Data ............................34 V7-MIRAGE P-64 (PCI) Jumpers ......................34 V7-MIRAGE P-64 (VL) Jumpers......................34 Memory Addresses of the V7-MIRAGE P-64 ..................34 Video Modes ............................34 VGA Output Connector ...........................35 VESA-Compatible Feature Connector....................36 APPENDIX C TROUBLESHOOTING ....................37 General Considerations ..........................37...
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Page 6: Quick Installation (Hardware)
1. Check that your monitor and system configuration support the SPEA graphics card (e.g. correct bus type and version). 2. Disconnect your computer from the mains power and peripheral equipment. -
Page 7: Quick Installation (Software)
Quick Installation (Software) The respective application (e.g. Windows) must already be configured for standard VGA (640 x 480) before the corresponding SPEA driver can be installed. 1. Insert the Media Gallery CD and start the software installation (from the CD drive) as follows: DOS: Enter SPEA.BAT at the DOS prompt... - Page 8 1. Check the README file on your CD (see page 2) or in your C:\SPEA\GDC directory after the installation. 2. Read Appendix C: Troubleshooting. 3. Check the technical support information on offer via the SPEA Support Mailbox 4. Contact the SPEA ExpertLine...
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Page 9: General Information
Warranty Index To enable you to find You have a 3 year warranty for your SPEA subjects in this manual graphics card. To ensure your warranty, it is quickly. necessary that you keep the invoice of the Symbols and Conventions graphics card. -
Page 10: Graphics Board Features
Introduction applications as well as useful utilities are supplied with your board. Additional software Your SPEA board is a high-resolution, VGA (drivers for specific applications) are also compatible graphics accelerator specially available, but not a part of the standard delivery designed to speed up applications running in scope. -
Page 11: Part 2 Hardware Installation
(horizontal and vertical refresh rate, 1. Hold the SPEA card on its edges only. Don't possible resolutions). touch edge connectors or exposed circuitry. 2. Leave the SPEA card in the anti-static Set your monitor to analog mode. -
Page 12: Preparing Your Computer
VGA (640 x 480) on your system prior to 1. Select a free expansion slot and remove its using the SPEA software. It is a good idea metal slot cover. Save the screw to secure to do this before removing an existing the graphics card later. -
Page 13: Additional Instructions
Please switch on your monitor before you switch on your computer. Doing it the other way around could damage your monitor. The SPEA board has been designed to 'plug & play' without any modifications being made to the default switch or jumper settings. If... -
Page 14: Part 3 Software Installation And Configuration
8. You will now be asked for the disk drive and VGA (640 x 480) on your system prior to directory names where the SPEA software using the SPEA software. It is a good idea should be copied (default: C:\SPEA\GDC). to do this before removing an existing 9. -
Page 15: Windows 3.1X (Bigwin Driver)
3. If not already marked, select your board in How is SPEA V7SETUP used? the list which appears. Double click on the SPEA V7 icon, the dialog 4. Click on the Installation button (on the box then will appear. right). -
Page 16: Windows Nt (Bigwinnt Driver)
Windows applications in some aspects. The program is automatically installed in connection with the V7SETUP. You will find it in the SPEA program group. To start the program, double click on the... -
Page 17: Os/2 (Spea Bigblue Driver)
7. Select the option 'Drivers and utilities for SPEA Software products'. 8. In the following lists confirm that you are installing software for the V7-MIRAGE P-64 board. 9. Select the OS/2 driver listed. 10. Accept the name CONTINUE.CMD as proposed. -
Page 18: Autocad 11 & 12 Autocad For Windows
Two drivers are currently available for AutoCAD: ADI driver 4.2 (description see next sections) SPEA BigFocus driver (see below) The BigFocus driver offers the following features: (for AutoCAD for DOS and Windows) Extensive online help Hotkeys - a large number of hotkeys can be defined ... -
Page 19: Aquila Adi Driver 4.2 Features
C:\SPEA\GDC\FONTS\6X9.FNT International font support There are seven font files provided with the User configurable screen colors SPEA driver. They will be copied into the C:\SPEA\GDC\FONTS directory. and 16 bit 'Band-Free' rendering support 6X9.FNT bit Rendering support 8X16.FNT... -
Page 20: Autocad Rel. 11 Protected Mode Driver
2. Change to E: and enter the following v4.0/4.1 display. command from the DOS prompt: 15. Continue to configure AutoCAD as SPEA.BAT described in the section Configuring the 3. If your board is not automatically detected Aquila Driver. (see the left of the screen) click on the V7- MIRAGE P-64 button. -
Page 21: Autocad Rel. 12 Protected Mode Driver
Continue to configure AutoCAD as described in command from the DOS prompt: the next section Configuring the Aquila driver. SPEA.BAT 3. If your board is not automatically detected (see the left of the screen) click on the V7- MIRAGE P-64 button. -
Page 22: Configuring The Aquila Driver
memory in your system. Configuring the Aquila Driver The Aquila driver shows you the following configuration menu for AutoCAD: 1. Display mode: Choose the display mode for your AutoCAD session. 2. Menu colors: Choose the menu colors if desired. 3. Flip Screen on/off (only Rel. 12): If you activate Flip Screen, a VGA text screen is emulated. -
Page 23: Special Aquila Driver Features
Enable redraw list? allows you to Special Aquila Driver Features enable a faster redraw method. This will consume some additional memory, but it Graphics Flip Screen does improve redraw speeds. When enabled this will emulate the VGA text If you selected static memory management window. - Page 24 keep coming up funny, then you need to Paging Alarm disable the erase buffer. When AutoCAD's memory requirements exceed the amount of physical memory available in your machine, it begins paging, in order to gain extra memory. Paging means that certain memory areas are traded back and forth with a swap file on the hard drive.
- Page 25 Edge-pan enabled but none Band-Free Rendering impending. When using the 15 or 16 bit rendering modes, often times the images appear banded. This banding or staircasing occurs most often on Aquila Driver Commands objects with large sloping or gently curving AQHLP The help screen function surfaces.
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Page 26: Autoshade 2.1
2. Change to E: and enter the following AQPANTM2=xx Amount of time before command from the DOS prompt: another edge-pan begins. SPEA.BAT Valid numbers are between 1 to 18. 3. If your board is not automatically detected (see the left of the screen) click on the V7- AQEBUF=xx Size of the erase buffer. -
Page 27: Studio 1.0
Band-Free mode. This allows the command from the DOS prompt: best color quality possible in a 15 or 16 bit SPEA.BAT device. Select Low, Medium or High. (The higher the Band Free the slower the speed.) 3. If your board is not automatically detected (see the left of the screen) click on the V7- 17. -
Page 28: Studio 2.0
2. Change to E: and enter the following command from the DOS prompt: 17. The first time that you try to render a SPEA.BAT drawing or view an image, you will be asked to select a resolution for the Rendering 3. -
Page 29: Ms-Flight Simulator 5.X
Select a resolution mode for the Main MS-Flight Simulator 5.x Display by pressing the ENTER key and then selecting a mode. This is the mode Note: that will be used for the 2D Shaper, 3D You must have already installed the basic Lofter, 3D Editor, and the Keyframer. -
Page 30: Microstation 4.0X & 5.0 (Spea Bigmicro Driver)
16 colors only. 11. Select ‘Exit’ and ‘Save’. Note: You must reboot your system for changes to take effect. 12. The SPEA driver is automatically loaded when you start MicroStation. Configuration of the MicroStation device driver via the environment variable MSPEAPM... -
Page 31: Appendix A Utilities
These changes can be done in the Tuning Setup menu. Who is SPEAtune intended for? If you use a SPEA graphics board and you do Start the Tuning Setup. Select a refresh rate not have a SPEA monitor, you can use and the number of colors. -
Page 32: Smode.exe - Setting The Video Mode For Dos Applications
You'll see colored stripes for about 7 seconds, (See table Standard VGA modes in the file then a list with the checked parts of your BIOS.TXT of the Superdisk or in your SPEA system appears. directory). Other possible emulations are EGA, To continue the program, press the space bar. -
Page 33: Using More Than One Board
Using more than one Board SPEA offers special dual screen packages with hardware and software included. If you are interested in using Windows with double-width resolutions or AutoCAD with a secondary graphics monitor, please ask your distributor for more information about the SPEA dual screen packages. -
Page 34: Appendix B Technical Details
V7-MIRAGE P-64 (PCI) Jumpers * During the boot procedure the board uses a 64k memory block (C000 - CFFF)! The V7-MIRAGE P-64 (PCI) has one jumper. Note: Jumper No. 2 (=JP2 on the board) Please note that some fax and modem cards is placed on the left next to the S3 chip. -
Page 35: Vga Output Connector
installation if you selected the option VGA Output Connector 'Utilities'. Function Green Blue Not used ground Red Return (ground) Green Return (ground) Blue Return (ground) Key (no pin) Sync Return (ground) not used not used Horizontal Sync (+) Vertical Sync (-) Not used... -
Page 36: Vesa-Compatible Feature Connector
VESA-Compatible Feature Connector The auxiliary VESA-compatible connector can be used to allow pass-through VGA to a coprocessor card that does not directly support VGA. Pin Function Pin Function Ground Pixel Data 0 Ground Pixel Data 1 Ground Pixel Data 2 (See Note) Pixel Data 3 (See Note) -
Page 37: Appendix C Troubleshooting
SPEA mailbox. Appendix C Troubleshooting General Considerations Make sure the SPEA board is firmly seated in its expansion slot, and that it is not touching other boards in your system. Be sure your monitor cable is properly connected to the SPEA board and that your monitor power switch is on. - Page 38 The SPEA Utilities are not available. board, networking card) from your system in order to find out possible The SPEA Utilities are packed (and not hardware conflicts. visible) on the SPEA Superdisk. To use them you have to install them via...
- Page 39 Add the following entry to the SYSTEM.INI file under the section [CAR1K.DRV]: CHIPSYNC=1 Reduce the refresh rate via the V7SETUP Reduce the clock rate of the sytem via the System-BIOS Setup. Windows or applications unter Windows crash. Mouse functions or icons are not correct. Wrong colors are displayed.
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Page 40: Appendix D Glossary
(i.e. video boards, Palette: A selection of colors from which to printers, and keyboards). Drivers are often choose. The V7-MIRAGE P-64 provides as loaded by your config.sys at system boot. many as 16.7 million simultaneous colors from EGA: The IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter. - Page 41 believed that the human eye can discern no Pixel: Short for picture element; the smallest more than 16.7 million colors. field displayed on the monitor; could be compared to the dots which form images in Peripheral Equipment: Auxiliary equipment photos printed in newspapers. Also called pel. connected to a computer (e.g.
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Page 42: Index
Index 3D Studio 1.0 ..........25 Memory Addresses ........32 3D Studio 2.0 ..........26 MicroStation 4.0x & 5.0 ........27 Monitor Compatibility........10 Address............8 ADI Driver 4.2 ..........17 README file ............8 AutoCAD ............17 AutoCAD Rel. 11..........18 AutoCAD Rel. 12..........19 S3TEST.EXE ..........30 SMODE.EXE..........30 Software ............9...
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